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...Once the market popcorn starts popping, it keeps popping. Volatility begets volatility. And on the flip side, calm begets calm. The really interesting times in financial markets come when we make the transition from one to the other. We may be living in interesting times...
...seminaries for the escalation of Sunni-Shi'ite violence that has claimed more than 4,000 lives in the past two decades. In the latest attacks, three separate suicide bombings killed 21 during the Ashura rituals in January. In Lebanon, sectarian tensions have risen after years of relative calm. Hizballah, the Shi'ite militia, won praise from Sunnis when Israeli forces left Lebanon in 2000. But after the assassination in February 2005 of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, a Sunni, intra-Muslim antagonism began to harden. Sunnis blamed Hizballah's patron, the Syrian government, for the killing. While faulting Hizballah...
...Gsann says.“Plastaz” is Swahili for “bandage.” “Our music is medicine to heal those wounds,” says Gsann. X Plastaz’s music is characterized by its traditional drums and a very calm, very even beat. Their songs “Msimu Kwa Msimu” and “Aha!” have been played by radio stations all over Africa, and the group’s album, “Maasai Hip Hop,” was released...
...Cordesman's bleak outlook comes on the heels of a recently released study by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy that warns that democracy is a long way from coming to the southern part of the country. In their report, "The Calm Before the Storm: The British Experience in Southern Iraq," Michael Knights and Ed Williams observe that greater Basra "has suffered one of the worst reversals of fortune of any area in Iraq since the fall of Saddam's regime." Once a cosmopolitan city and the center of Iraq's oil industry, the city - under British control...
...ability to stay calm under fire may well have saved the older prince from undignified skirmishes with the paparazzi during subsequent years in the navy and since 2001 as a working royal. No matter the prodigious number of cucumber sandwiches he nibbles for Queen and Country, or however skilfully he promotes British business as the U.K.'s Special Representative for International Trade and Investment (public records show he undertook 446 engagements in 2006, excluding business meetings), Elizabeth's second son never shakes off his tabloid image as a feckless playboy - an image photographers find profitable to reinforce...